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The unfinished world : and other stories / Amber Sparks.
Van Pelt Library PS3619.P3474 A6 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sparks, Amber, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Speculative fiction, American.
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 226 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2016]
- Summary:
- "Sparks's stories--populated with sculptors, librarians, astronauts, and warriors--form a veritable cabinet of curiosities. Mythical, bizarre, and ... moving, [the book] ... illuminates the search for a brief encounter with the extraordinary"--Amazon.com.
- Contents:
- The janitor in space
- The Lizzie Borden jazz babies
- The cemetery for lost faces
- The logic of the loaded heart
- Thirteen ways of destroying a painting
- Lancelot in the lost places of the world
- And the world was crowded with things that meant love
- Birds with teeth
- For these humans who cannot fly
- Take your daughter to the slaughter
- We were holy once
- La belle de nuit, la belle de jour
- The men and women like him
- Things you should know about Cassandra Dee
- The fires of western heaven
- The process of human decay
- The fever librarian
- The unfinished world
- The sleepers.
- ISBN:
- 9781631490903
- 1631490907
- OCLC:
- 922220451
- Publisher Number:
- 99967957000
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